honour

Relatives arrested over suspected ‘honour’ killing in Gaza

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) — Gaza police have arrested family members over the deaths of two Palestinian teenage girls, one of them the victim of a suspected “honour” killing, Hamas authorities said Monday. Authorities caught relatives of one of the girls as they were trying to bury her in a cemetery near Jabaliya, north of .. read more

Abducted school girls undergo counseling in Wa, Ghana

Some 120 school girls who were rescued from abduction and forced marriages in three districts of the Upper West Region have undergone two days of counseling in Wa. The girls, who have an average age of 16 years, were attending Junior High School in Jirapa, Lambussiue/Karni and Sissala East Districts before they went through their .. read more

Child brides married off for ‘honor’ in Pakistan

One sunny afternoon as she skipped home from school, Saneeda was accosted by her estranged father, who wanted to marry her to a man she’d never met to settle a debt of “honor.” She was five years old. A few months earlier, Saneeda’s father Ali Ahmed had eloped with a girl from another valley. To .. read more

For a Kurdish Woman, No Way Out

There may be knee-slappers to be written about forced marriage, but they aren’t to be found in the goofy, slapdash “One Candle, Two Candles ….” The Kurdish filmmaker Jano Rosebiani, who directed the well-received drama “Jiyan,” about the aftermath of chemical attacks, inflicts an antic approach on the story of a teenager betrothed to a rich older man. Sparks .. read more

No freewill: 708 children fell prey to forced marriages in 2013

KARACHI: At least 708 boys and girls fell prey to forced and early marriages in Pakistan in the year 2013, which included 264 such cases in Punjab, 199 in Sindh, 143 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 102 cases in Balochistan, said the founder of Madadgaar Helpline, Zia Ahmed Awan at a roundtable conference titled, ‘Addressing Gender Base .. read more

This Woman Was Murdered For a Kiss in a Train Station

I grew up in a community where “honour” was a form of currency that determined each family’s status in the community. It was expressed by stifling the autonomy of women from birth to death. As I grew up, I began to hear more and more whispered stories of beatings, forced marriages, and even murder, which .. read more

Man slays wife, youth guns down mother for ‘honour’

BAHAWALPUR/SARGODHA/ATTOCK/HAFIZABAD At least seven persons including two women were killed in different incidents of honour killing, enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours. According to details, in Bahawalpur, a man killed his wife for honour. Imtiaz Hussain, a resident of resident of Tibi Laraan near Rahim Yar Khan suspected his wife Arifa Bibi of .. read more

Coming out of the dark ages

Contrary to popular belief, honour killings aren’t only a problem in Pakistan. Take for example the 2011 case of a 20-year-old man in Italy who was murdered by his brother for coming out as gay and ‘bringing shame’ upon the family. According to statistics from the UN, one in five cases of honour killing every year .. read more

Love under the shadow of honour

The honour killings of Manoj and Babli, perhaps the most-lived in public memory, had all the ingredients of a potboiler: a passionate love story, a morbid tale of revenge and a woman’s spirited fight for justice for her dead son. At least 1,000 young people are killed every year in India in the name of .. read more

Couple found dead in UP, honour killing suspected

The bodies of a couple said to be in love against the will of their parents was recovered from the outskirts of the state capital on Thursday, police said. The 16-year-old girl was shot dead and Rajjan, 22, was found hanging from a tree in lalkheda village in Banthara area. A country-made pistol was recovered .. read more